cookbook-like "idiots" recipe for grabbing a CVS emacs?

cookbook-like "idiots" recipe for grabbing a CVS emacs?

[David Combs]

cookbook-like "idiots" recipe for grabbing a CVS emacs?

I need a cookbook-like "idiots" recipe for grabbing a CVS emacs?

(Likely, this is likely the *only* use I'll make of CVS --
way too hard to learn for just this one (maybe
repeated) use -- for emacs.)


All I want is the newest possible emacs-version, and I read (here)
that it's "in CVS".

Could someone show me some
"for total-dummies" recipe for actually grabbing the CVS emacs?

By far the best would be the exact commands, strings,
responses, etc that I could *blindly* follow and,
presto!, I've now got myself cvs'
emacs-<newest>.tar.gz?


Thanks so much!

David

Re: cookbook-like "idiots" recipe for grabbing a CVS emacs?

[John Paul Wallington]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> Could someone show me some
> "for total-dummies" recipe for actually grabbing the CVS emacs?

cd into the directory you would like the emacs sources to be in.
(for example, I put all my cvs snarfed programs into /build)

then type:
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs login

when you are prompted for a password just press return.
(the password for anonymous access is the empty string)

then type:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
(co means checkout)

bingo!  you should have an emacs source tree.

Read emacs/INSTALL-CVS, especially:

Some of the files that are included in the Emacs tarball, such as
byte-compiled Lisp files, are not stored in the CVS repository.
Therefore, to build from CVS you must run "make bootstrap"
instead of just "make":

  $ ./configure
  $ make bootstrap


After some time has passed you might want to update your sources, to
get recent changes.  I'm not sure what is the best way to do that,
but a straightforward way is to type:

cvs up

from within the emacs directory.